Some time ago, somebody recommended the book "Siblings without Rivals" to me. I read it, applied quite a bit of it, and was pretty happy. Admittedly, stuff like that tends to slide away from me when I don't read it, but there's one aspect I've kept in a modified format ( Read more... )

It's another day home sick for Henry, coughing up a storm, but cheerful. The cleaning lady is here, so we've retreated to the basement. He spotted a bag that looked interesting and asked me to pull it down ( Read more... )

Or however you spell it ( Read more... )

"Daddy! No! Don't play with us! We're playing together!" (We've apparently been rendered obsolete)

"Let's play ancient Egypt! Edward, you lay on the floor and I'll build a [pillow] pyramid on you. You're the pharoh, and now you're undead. Mom! Come be the Egyptologist and find him!"

"Mom, I love you more than Mac -n- Cheese."
And lest you fear ( Read more... )

Children can be so blithe about disaster. Last night a reasonably exciting storm rolled through right around bedtime. The boys happily watched lightning from the porch before the blowing rain drove us inside. While we were out there, Henry kept commenting that trees would fall down and land on us. Or maybe on the house.

Upon returning in, he ( Read more... )

It's official. I'm a mom to boys. Henry woke me up this morning with the help of a big katydid*. (In a jar, thankfully!) Not long now, and I'll be finding frogs in their pockets, and drowned salamanders in the laundry ( Read more... )

M&Ms are so quotidian. Henry finally potty trained for no less than Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares. Now Edward demands the Dumon chocolates that we brought back from Bruges. All that's left is mostly white chocolate anyway, so I don't mind sharing.

My boys have taste. But nobody's touching my Wittamer...

Planning failYep, we don’t pre-reg unless we have to. So sue me ( Read more... )

I know I’m not the only one on my flist to be going through potty training right now, so I was thinking that an information dump might be helpful to more than one of us. This isn’t a call for advice, per se, but a call for narrative. How did you potty train your kids? Especially if you had difficulties? Or a "stubborn child". If something ended up ( Read more... )

So, MTA. It went pretty well. The weather was amazingly good, if a little chilly in the morning, and a little sunny in the afternoon, but that's quibbling. It was perfect wool weather, and sun is better than rain any day. Especially at Mud Through the Ages ( Read more... )